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For her role in developing future leaders and ensuring that the most marginalized children have the opportunity to learn and express their true potential, Dr. Wendy Kopp, CEO and co-founder of the Education for All Network, won the prestigious WISE Award for Education, during the tenth edition of the The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) is currently being held in the Qatari capital, Doha.

Education for All is a global network of independent organizations in 61 countries that advances the understanding that meaningful and sustainable education requires leaders rooted in their communities and who believe in transformative potential and providing opportunities that all children deserve.

Since its inception in 2007, the Education for All Network has developed an ecosystem of collective leadership, aimed at ensuring that all children receive an education that allows them to express their potential and shape their future.

Cope explained that in the current era, there is a great focus on the problem of inequity in education, which would accelerate progress in developing advanced educational systems that allow innovation and creativity.

The value of the WISE award is 500 thousand dollars (Al-Jazeera)

Education brings security

Wendy Cope explained that she has realized over the past years that achieving aspirations for peace and security in the world is absolutely linked to the need for everyone to have a degree of comprehensive education based on achieving justice and equality.

The “WISE Award for Education” is the first excellence award of its kind that celebrates outstanding and world-leading contributions in the field of education, whether individual or collective (for a team consisting of a maximum of 6 individuals). 500 thousand dollars.

Cope believes that receiving the "WISE Award for Education" is a great honor for her, as this award holds great value in the field of innovation as well as building the future of education, as well as being a global reference for modern educational methodologies.

She pointed out that obtaining this award is the effort of an entire family dedicated to helping them from around the world to reap this achievement, indicating that the network in Qatar has achieved a lot, especially with regard to building students' capabilities.

She noted the World Innovation Summit for Education, which provides distinguished efforts in the field of education development, especially in light of the urgent need to provide an opportunity for future generations in innovative and advanced education based on interaction.

Cope believes that collective efforts are the way to achieve equitable opportunities in education (Al-Jazeera)

Forge the future

Cope considered that receiving the WISE Award "represents an endorsement and appreciation for our theory of change, the necessity of achieving equality in education and reshaping the system so that it prepares future generations to overcome uncertainty and forge a better future."

The CEO and Co-Founder of the Education for All Network stressed that complex problems can only be solved through the collective efforts of the many, working together across all levels to achieve equitable opportunities in education for future generations.

The system, developed by the Education for All Network, aims to inspire outstanding graduates in 61 countries to channel their passion towards expanding opportunities for children, with a commitment to teaching for two years in schools and communities, where education is most in need.

With the continued support of partners across countries, these teachers become effective classroom leaders and determined advocates for their students, based on their teaching experience and a deep belief in each child's potential and potential.

These outstanding teachers go on to become policymakers, advocates, and entrepreneurs, and then work alongside others to change systems that deny so many opportunities that everyone deserves.

Since its establishment 14 years ago, the network has recruited more than 104,000 people across 6 continents, and is currently supporting 1.1 million young people to develop skills and knowledge, in the context of the need for teachers who continue to work to expand opportunities for children and achieve equality in education, whether as teachers in the classroom or as activists They work outside the classroom.

The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) is an international, multi-sectoral platform aimed at creative thinking, discussion, and purposeful action. Innovation and building the future of education through collaboration.

WISE awards and encouragement are granted every year to 6 innovative projects that have succeeded in addressing global challenges in the field of education. Since 2009, WISE has received more than 4,200 applications for nominations from more than 150 countries around the world.